Milking-stool.



L. HANSON.

' MILKING sTooL. APPLICATION FILED MAB. 17, 1913.

1,075,145, Patented 0ct.7,1913.

(/7/ ATTORNEY rn'r ritten MILKINGr-STOOL.

T0 all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS l-IANSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cottonwood, in the county of Idaho and State of Idaho, have invented a new and useful Milking-Stool, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in milking stools.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of milking stools, and to provide a simple, practical and inexpensive milking stool, designed for the use of both male and female milkers, equipped with a milk pail support capable of receiv ing milk pails or buckets of different sizes and of supporting the same in an elevated position out of co-ntact with the ground, and adapted to be readily adjusted to arrange such a receptacle at the proper elevation to suit the size of a cow, and capable also of leaving both hands of the operator free and at the same time prevent a milk pail from being kicked over.

A further object of the invention is to provide a milking stool adapted to afford a convenient seat of the desired height, and capable of being firmly supported in an upright position on hilly oruneven ground.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacriiicing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing F igure l is a perspective view of a milking stool, constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, l designates a tubular standard provided at its lower end with legs 2 and receiving a vertically movable telescopic tubular section or sleeve 3, carrying a seat 4 at its upper end and provided at its lower Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led March 17, 1913.

Patented Got. 7, l9ll3.

Serial No. 755,004.

end with a horizontal annular flange 5 to which is secured the upper end of a coiled spring 6. The tubular section 3 is slidable vertically to arrange the seat t at the proper elevation, and it is preferably split at its upper end to form horizontal attaching arms or portions 7, secured by screws or other suitable fastening devices to the lower face of the seat. The coiled spring 6 is disposed on the lower portion of the tubular standard and its lower end is seated upon a central connecting portion S, formed integral with the legs 2 and secured by a rivet 9, or other suitable fastening device to the lower end l0 of the vertical standard, but the legs may bei applied to the lower end of the standard in any other suitable manner, as will be readily understood. The coiled spring yieldably supports the vertically movable tubular section or sleeve 8 and is adapted to slide the same upwardly on the standard when the said tubular sleeve is free to move, and it is depressible to enable the seat to be lowered. By this construction, the seat is adapted to be adjusted to the desired elevation, and it is secured in its adjustment by means of a screw ll, mounted in a threaded opening l2 of a boss or enlargement 13 of the tubular standard and provided at its outer end with a crank handle 14 to enable it to be readily rotated to engage it with and disengage it from the standard. The screw ll may be arranged at any desired point, and it enables the vertically adjustable seat carrying sleeve or member 3 to be rigidly secured at any desired elevation. The upper end 6a of the spring is connected with the flange 5 by being passed through a perforation thereof and bent against the upper face of the flange, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing, but the upper end of the spring may be secured to the tubular member in any other desired manner.

The vertically adjustable tubular member' carries a milk pail support comprising in its construction a horizontal band l5, connected with the tubular member 3 by an arm 16 andL supporting a pair of crossed approximately semicircular metallic straps 17 depending from the band and connected at their upper ends to the same, and coperating therewith to form a basket for the reception of a milk pail or bucket to support the latter above the ground and also to hold the said receptacle in convenient position to receive the milk. The arm 16, which may be constructed in any suitable manner, is illlust-rated in the drawing as formed of. la single continuous strip of metal, bent at its center to form a collar 18, which embraces the tubular member 3 and is slidable upwardly and downwardly thereon and adapt ed to retain itself in the desired vertical adjustinent to trictional engagement with the tubular member, but any suitable means may be employed tor positively fastening or clamping the collar 18 in its adjustment or the collar may be rigidly secured to the tubular member 3. The side portions of the stri-p of metal are suitably secured together toy term an arm of 'two plieslor `thicknesses, 'and the terminal portions 179 Aof the strip areV riveted or rotherwise secured to the band' 15l and are` curved to lit the same.

rlhe band 15', which is constructed 'of suitable resilient material, is connected at an intermediate point to the terminal attach-fing portions 19 ot the arm 16, and its ends 2@ are overlapped and are suitably connected with each lother by loops or guides 21. Each of they terminals 2O is equipped wtha loopl or guide, which slidablyf receives the other terminal 20 of the band. By this construction, the bandv may be varied in size to lit the diameter of a milk pail or bucket, which is supported by the curved strips 17. rlhe strips 17, which are also preferably constructed of resilient material, are secured together at the point or" crossing by a rivet 22, Aor other suitable fasteningA device and their upper terminals are bentto lform hooks 23, engaging over the upper edge of the horizontal band 15 and securing the supporting straps 17 to the same. llVlren a milk pail or bucket is placed in the basket or holder formed by the adjustable band and the resilient supporting straps 17, it is securely held in proper position, and the bucket is adapted to be arranged through the vertical adjustment of the arm 16, or through the adjustment ofthe tubular member 3, either upon the ground or` at any desired elevation within the range of' its adjustment to suit the size oit a: cow and it leaves both hands of the milfker free and etiectually prevents the milk pail or receptacle from being kicked over by the animal'. .ln practice the horizontal supporting arm 16 will extend between the legs of the mil'ker and the milk pail will be supported in the usual position with krelation to thek knees of the person milking.

The 'milking stool is particularly adapted for use outdoors, and to enable it to be firmly supported in an upright position on inclined or uneven ground, it is equipped with a prop 2d, preferably consisting of two legs or members, arranged' at a slight angle and diverging upwardly and connected atv their upper ends by an eye 25, which is linked into an outwardly extending ear 2G,

i ing theA milking stool.

formed by outturned terminals of a collar 27, slidably embracing the tubular member o and adapted to be adjusted upwardly and downwardly thereon to arrange the prop or brace 24; in the proper position for support- The adjustable collar 27 is also adapted to be turned on the gtubular member 3 to arrange it at any side otv the standard, and when the prop or brace is properly placed, it maintains the milking stool in a tirm stead-y position.

That is 'claimed is:-

1. A milking stool comprising a vertical standard, a seat having a tubular mem-ber slidable I'on the standard, a vspring mounted on the standard and arranged to yiel'dably support the tubular member and adapted to move the same upwardly on- -the standard, means for 'securing 'the tubular member in its adj ustment, and a milk pail support ar'- ranged at a point between the seat `and the lower end of the standard.

2. A mil-king stool comprising a vertical standard provided at its lower end with legs,

a tubular member slfidable on the lstandard and provided its lower end with a flange, a coiled spring mounted on the lower portion of' the standard and fitting 'against the said Piange, a screw carried by thetubular member and arranged to `engage the 'standard, anda milkpail support mounted von the tubular member. j

8. A milking stool including a Vvertical standard, a horizontal arm-consisting. of a single continuous strip of. Ametal bent centrally to form a collar vto receivel and slide on the said'I standarchthfe side .portions of the strip being litte'd togetherand the terminals of the strip being bent outwardly, andV a basket `comprising 'a bandI 'fitted against and secured tothe terminals of 'the said strip, and crossed' supporting strips forming the sides andbottom` of the basket and secured" to the said band.

l. A. milking lstool includinga seat, upriglitjsup'porting means for the seat, a milk pail support or 'h'older carried bythe said supporting means, and? Van adjustable brace or prop' arranged atan inclination and` provided at its upper end with a collar adjustably embracingjtlie seat supporting means.

5. A milking 'stoolv 'including a seat, upright supporting means' for the seat, a milk paill support or 'holder carried 'by thesaid supporting means, an inclined brace or lprop composed of upwardly'converging sid'es and an eye connecting the uppervter'minalsof the sides, and a collar adjustably embracing the seat supporting means and provided with a projecting ear or portion 'having an opening intowhich the said'y eye is linked.

V6. A milking stool including a 'vertical standard, a seat having Aa tubular member slid'able on the standard to .arrange 'the seat at different elevations, a milk pail support provided With a collar embracing the tubuas my own, I have hereto aHiXed my signalar member, and a prop or brace also proture in the presence of two Witnesses.

vided with a collar, which adjustably embraces the said tubular member to permit LOUIS HANSON 5 the prop to be arranged at dierent eleva- Witnesses:

tions and in different positions. G. F. SIMON,

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing BART R. SIMON.

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